Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-05-07
.BENEATH THE DIGNITY !.

"BENEATH THE DIGNITY"
The Wa-Keeney World and Wallace
Reeisfer are involved In quarrel which
is beneath the dignity of both papers
The publishers are both men OF recog-
nized ability, and Tilton, especially. has
done great deal of good for Wa-Keeney
and western Kansas. 4 O6erAn Eye.
Dignity, the Eye is strong enough to
perceive, is something man must dis
card when he goes to firing at news
paper hermaphrodites. In the case of
Wilson, we have. to plead guilty of hav-
ing done this. There is not respectable
journalist. on earth with which the
World is not on terms of amity. We
know how destitute of good results these
newspaper controversies are apt to be-
For years, we have made it a rule not
to begin one of them of a personal nature.
But 1t is not human nature to ac9uiesce
more than three months at a stretch In
what bastard journalist may, in the
lousy RIGHTEOUSNESS of his nature, see fit
to heap upon you in the way of unadul-
terated SANDER, intending to accomplish
by the foulest of means what he acknowl-
edges his utter inability to do by fair
means.
Talking about Wilson: Two weeks
ago we asked him to show his financial
responsibility, in order that we might, in
a legal manner, obtain redress for a
couple of the lying charges which he had
made against us. The answer is an in
sane sheer, and a desertion of those
charges to manufacture new ones equally
groundless and vicious. OF course, his
action in the premises establishes his
financial uvesbonsi5il,ty. The correctness
of his answer is vouched for by some of
his neighbors.
Now, when fellow proclaims his f.
nancial responsibility for the slanderous
contents of his newspaper, it is to be adj
mitted with alacrity that it is time to let
him alone, with the exception of keeping
before the public, which he is likely to
swindle, what kind of putrid stinker he
is. In this case, we have one further OBJ
ject. This is to get Wilson to continue
filling his sheet with his vile illusions
aimed at us. They don't hurt us, but en-
able him to get something with which to
fill up his sheet, which has generally
been virtual blank.
Wilson says we don't know the enact
ing clause of bill. We know enough
about enacting clauses on general prin-
ciples to know that irresponsible drivellers
like himself never have any that count.
Wilson says we are candidate for SEN
ator. This is the first time we had heard
it. Ii he was responsible for his debts Or
his utterances, we would thank him for
the information. AS it is, he could do
us no good-nor harm either, we will
add!
Wilson declares that Trego county
needs another Republican paper. Yes, it
is disease which has broken out among
an exceedingly limited few here every
once in a while since the Western Kan
sas World was established, more than
eight long years ago. But the disease
never lasts long like it does at Wallace,
where real Republican paper, the News,
has held its own with the alleged Repub-
lican Register, owned nominally by one
party by the name of
Wilson.
Wilson lectures us on grammar. Per-
haps when he quits using punctuation
marks like the beginner plays checkers
by throwing the objects anywhere to get
them in-we viii call on him for instruc-
ton. Possibly, we may object then un-
til he learns to put "pastime" into one
word, instead of having it spelled in
two words, and printed "pass time.''
parallels Of longitude is hurting the
old man. Now, if he has not entirely
lost his head, he can see readily that that
term is as nearly correct as it would be
to say that his thoughts run parallel with
those of any responsible, decent man!
We agree that he has no reason to appre-
clate parallels.
Wilson, load your sheet up for us next
week. Don't be so tame. You are silly |
TO think OF putting even one item on any
other subject into your alleged newspa-
per, when it is so easy to write filings at
Filton, man with whom you were so
sweet until he dared oppose YOU to vote
in behalf of his own constituents!
MEETING THE MUGWuMP.